Natalya Radina

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New York, December 8, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called for the immediate release of journalist Aleksandr Alesin, who according to news reports is being held by the Belarusian national security service, known as the KGB.

How does one negotiate the choice to stay and report potentially dangerous news, rather than take a less risky assignment, leave the profession, or flee the country? The recipients of the 2011 International Press Freedom Awards explain. By Kristin Jones

It's
not unusual for Charter 97,
a Belarusian pro-opposition news website, to be disrupted online. CPJ has documented
intimidations, threats, and arrests against its staff members, the murder
of its founder, and denial-of-serviceattacks
against the website.

The Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria might seem like an
odd venue to stage a call for resistance. Nine hundred people in tuxedos and gowns. Champagne and
cocktails. Bill
Cunningham snapping photos. This combination is generally more likely to
coax a boozy nostalgia than foment a revolution. But the journalists honored last night at CPJ's
annual International Press Freedom Awards had a clear message to their
colleagues: Fight the power.

New York, January 31, 2011--Belarusian authorities
must lift restrictions on newly freed journalists Natalya
Radina and Irina Khalip, and drop the fabricated charges against them, the
Committee to Protect Journalist said today. CPJ also called for the immediate
release of the still-jailed reporters Boris
Goretsky and Yevgeny Vaskovich.

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New York, January 12, 2011--As part of an ongoing assault on the independent press in Belarus, KGB agents in Minsk raided the apartments of imprisoned journalist Irina Khalip and her mother, Lyutsina Khalip, and took the journalist's computer, the independent news website Charter 97 reported. Today's raids are the second at each apartment since the agency imprisoned the journalist on December 20, according to Charter 97. Khalip is the local correspondent for the Moscow-based independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.

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New York, January 11, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns theongoing official crackdown against the independent media in Belarus. The Belarusian security service, known as the KGB, continues to relentlessly raid newsrooms, confiscate reporting equipment from publications and journalists'homes, imprison independent and pro-opposition journalists, and harass their families.

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New York, January 3, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the European Union today to condition its diplomatic relations with Belarus on the release of all recently arrested journalists and the halt of official Minsk's crackdown on the independent press.

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New York, December 23, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged by the ongoing detention and potential prosecution of Belarusian journalists Natalya Radina, editor of the pro-opposition news website Charter 97, and Irina Khalip, local correspondent for the Moscow-based independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Both are considered suspects in organizing and participating in mass disorder--a charge that carries up to 15 years in prison if convicted, according to the website of the State Department of Internal Affairs (GUVD) in Minsk. It is not clear whether the two have been officially charged yet.

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New York, December
21, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the prison sentences
handed down to journalists who
reported on post-election protests in Belarus, and the anti-media
rhetoric by President Aleksandr Lukashenko.